In
its current edition, the New England Journal of Medicine observed
that many hospital patients in the United States are put at risk because
they don't speak English and, thus, can't communicate with medical professionals
when they are sick or injured and end up in an emergency room or trauma
unit. The tone of the article suggested the fault for this dilemma lies
at the doorstep of the hospitals and medical care facilities that don't
provide translators for illegal aliens and English-deficient aliens
here on student visas or green cards.

In
May, 2005 the Council on Foreign Relations put together a North
America Community Task Force that was focused on seamlessly merging
the peoples and economics of the United States, Canada and Mexico into
a North American Union. What that means is that, under the terms of
the trade agreement signed by President George W. Bush, Mexican President
Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, Bush can't seal
the American borders. The triparte agreement between the three nations
contains an "open skies and open roads" clause that requires each nation
to have free access to the other two. To go along with this "openness,"
a biometric triparte border pass (i.e., an tri-national ID card) is
being developed to guarantee North American citizens effortless access
to the North American continent.

If
you want to blame someone for the language barrier, you might blame
President George W. Bush whose internationalism has put him in a position
where he can't enforce the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
In six years, Bush prosecuted exactly four business owners for hiring
illegal aliens. When Congress authorized the hiring of 8 thousand new
US Border Patrol agents, the Bush Administration hired 200. And, Bush
has done nothing to secure the borders, leaving the Southern door wide
open for any terrorist touting a belt-load of explosives to walk right
into the country like a welcomed guest. Or, you could blame former co-presidency
of Bill and Hillary Clinton who, to get 5 million brand new Democratic
voters in 1996, illegally waived US law and allowed 5 million Hispanic
and Oriental alien residents to take their citizenship examinations
in their native languages even though US law requires the test to be
taken in English only. Or, you can blame the globalists who have been
trying, since 1920, to create global government. Studying the unraveling
of the societal thread of the Soviet Union, experts decided that the
Soviet Union collapsed largely because the Kremlin was never able to
assimilate those they forcibly absorbed through conquest.

Over
83 years those conquered peoples were ethnically, culturally and linguistically
separate from the ethnic Russians. As captives, they had no interest
or desire to be assimilated into the Soviet society. For that reason,
absorbing conquered people was a problem for Vladimir Lenin in 1920,
and it continued to be a problem for every Soviet leader through the
history of the Soviet system—and it remains such today even though the
former captive satellite countries are theoretically independent nations.

National
separatism grew over the years, making it even more difficult for the
Soviet bureaucracy to manage its deeply troubled economy. Compounding
the economic dilemma of the Soviets was the need of the Russian oligarchs
to buttress their occupation garrisons in most of the captive nations
under their control with costly occupation-strength armies, further
aggravating their financial woes. Efforts to assimilate the captive
people met such resistance that Josef Stalin was eventually forced to
make his commissars and the bureaucrats assigned to rule the captured
lands learn the language of the conquered people. As a result, those
captive ethnic groups retained not only their own languages, but their
cultural diversity as well. The problem did not get better with time.
National unity was never achieved. Ethnically, these diverse groups
remained ideologically linked with the cultural moorings of their separatist
pasts.

From
the Soviet failure at assimilation, the utopian ideologues who want
to collapse the American republic learned a valuable lesson that would
pay huge dividends over the next 50 years. Diligently the liberals worked
unobtrusively within the societal structure of America using ethnic
separatism and cultural diversity as an inherent right of minority races
to weaken and ultimately destroy the fabric of patriotic unity in America,
one thread at a time. Ethnic and cultural separatism will prove to be
the Achilles Heel of this nation of immigrants. Separatism will destroy
the fiber of national unity in America through the deliberate fractionalization
of the people of the United States into subcultures within the social
structure of the nation.

This
has largely achieved over time not by promoting America as a nation
of free men unified to protect the inherent rights of each other so
they can work together to keep the nation strong, but as a multi-lingual,
multicultural society in which diversity, not unity, is encouraged not
only as a right but as a cultural obligation. This obligation—the official
agenda of government—was actively pursued by Hillary Rodham Clinton
in the opening months of the Clinton years when the most powerful woman
in America went on the record on Nov. 11, 1993 and said: "When middle
class whites flee from an area that has a significant African-American
population...[they perpetuate]...a vicious cycle wherein tax money is
no longer available for our entitlement programs. These whites are practicing
an intolerable elitism when they moved into moated communities with
fences and guards. This is an offense to the African-American and Latino
communities. It's the same sort of thing as whites taking their children
out of public schools because of what they perceive are dangerous conditions...I
think that all housing projects, regardless of the price of the units
involved or the location and regardless of whether these units are public
or private in nature, be mandated by Federal law to provide 25% low-cost
minority housing. Perhaps then the elitists would be forced to come
to grips with the plain fact that this is going to be a multicultural,
multiracial country very quickly, and we are not going to tolerate or
perpetuate defacto segregation." Read: Whatever
Happened To America.

The
last ten UN Global Summits gave high priorities to pushing its
multicultural and multiracial agenda in the United States in order to
create a blended societal homology in the United States that is neither
black nor white, yellow or tan, rich or poor, theist or atheist. What
has happened along our Southern border since 1990, and the lack of interest
on the part of the Clinton and both the Bush-41 and -43 administrations
to secure our borders and halt the influx of illegals into America.

The
New England Journal of Medicine noted that in the last decade
of the 20th century, the number of non-English speaking residents in
the United States grew by over 7 million—up to 25 million. Ninety percent
of them, or more, are illegal. Those without a basic proficiency in
English were not just Mexican. Many are Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipino,
Korean and, surprisingly, Russian. Non-English speaking residents in
the United States total about 8% of the population.

Several
studies done by minority rights groups studying language barriers in
American healthcare facilities suggested that few, if any, hospitals
regularly employ staff interpreters and rely, instead, on minority employees
to communicate with injured people coming into their emergency rooms.
The purpose of these "studies" is to create a catalyst that will pressure
Congress into enacting a law requiring healthcare facilities to provide
translators for every language and/or dialect spoken with the trade
area serviced by those healthcare facilities.

The
article's author, Dr. Glenn Flores, MD, FAAP, is a pediatrics professor
at Medical College of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he is also Director,
Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children. Flores is
a former Robert Wood Johnson Minority Medical Faculty Scholar and Robert
Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Gen. Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. whose wealth
finances the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was the son of the
founder of Johnson & Johnson. Johnson, a Freemason, was the 64th
wealthiest man in America. He was politically involved in minority medical
issues until his death in 1968. In 1998 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
financed a secret project for the Clinton Administration to keep it
off the public radar screen—funding biometric healthcare cards containing
tracking chips for an experimental welfare program called Health Passport
in North Dakota, Wyoming and Nevada.

The
Smart Card technology was used to create not only a medical database
on the families of welfare recipients, but a complete history—including
a history of mental illness and criminal activity. Not exactly the type
of information a doctor needs to know if a welfare child's inoculations
are current. The GPS tracking chip in the Health Passport card
allowed authorities to physically track the whereabouts of the cardholder—and
track them the Department of Health and Human Services did, for
four years. Since the poorest Americans are the most transient, the
tracking card provided DHHS with the migratory pattern of the card's
recipients.

Flores'
language barrier advocacy is an agenda-driven program with an objective.
At the end of that objective is the dissolution of America's borders,
the assimilation of minority races into our society and, ultimately,
subjecting the American people to not quite willing membership in a
global society governed by not the quite democratic laws of other nations.
Flores, who has been an advocate of minority issues for most of his
professional life, correctly noted in the Journal of Medicine
article that patients who cannot communicate their symptoms are at risk.

Flores
noted that the lack of interpreters translates into impaired health
care and the likelihood of the patient not being given a follow-up appointment—or
their keeping it. Flores is correct. People who can't probably communicate
their symptoms may be treated for something that does not afflict them.
People who don't understand English will also likely have difficulty
understanding how to administer the medications prescribed by an English-speaking
doctor and filled in an English-speaking pharmacy.

He
also cited a case in Florida where an non-English speaking Hispanic
18-year complained of being nauseated. In Spanish, the word for nauseated
is intoxicado. The emergency room doctor heard the word "intoxicated,"
and thought the young man was telling him he was drunk. Thirty-six hours
later the hospital realized he had a brain aneurysm. The hospital settled
the malpractice suit for $71 million. The youth ended up a quadriplegic.

Flores
also reported on an incident in which non-English speaking parents took
their 10-month old daughter to a pediatric clinic because she seemed
listless. The infant was diagnosed with iron-deficient anema. The doctor
gave them a prescription for Fer-Gen-Sol iron, 15 mg per 0.6
l, 1.2 ml (3.5 mg) daily. The pharmacist—who spoke only English—used
a medicine dropper to show the parents how to properly measure the dosage.
The label on the prescription bottle was written in English. Within
15 minutes of administering the first dose, the 10-month old vomited
twice. The parents rushed her to the closest emergency room which it
was discovered the baby was suffering from iron poisoning. Questioned
by hospital personnel, the parents said they gave their daughter a tablespoon
of medication—about 43 mg, or about ten times to prescribed dosage.

These
and hundreds of other healthcare-related language barrier incidents
are tragic, but the solutions proposed by the utopian bureaucrats are
even more tragic. The utopian solution is to force businesses to hire
interpreters, print all government regulations in the 101 known languages
and dialects spoken in the United States, and force manufacturers to
use multilingual packaging. And, of course, printing street signs in
several languages to accommodate those living here who don't wish to
be assimilated into the American society. Although it would be viewed
by the liberals as politically incorrect, we need to mandate that anyone
entering the United States be required to learn English before they
can become a citizen (as required by US law).

The
decision to educate Hispanic children in Spanish and not English, and
children from other countries in their native language rather than English
is not the choice of their parents who clearly understand that for their
children to become part of the American dream, they have to be assimilated
into the society, not a subculture on the fringe of that society. It's
a utopian decision by bureaucrats who want to use the offspring of the
world's human capital to fracture the patriotic bond of America, and
drive the wedge of mistrust into the population in order to divide the
people of the United States to make it easier to conquer them.

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These
and hundreds of other healthcare-related language barrier incidents are
tragic, but the solutions proposed by the utopian bureaucrats are even
more tragic. The utopian solution is to force businesses to hire interpreters,
print all government regulations in the 101 known languages and dialects
spoken in the United States...